Under Pressure To Reduce My Age For Employment

I want to believe this is satrting point of courruption which i totally abbhor.

My friends are saying that it is the way people are doing it,but my mind
will not allow me to do such.Though i am not claiming to be mr.perfect,
because on daily basis i am strivingin the Lord to be upright in whatever i am doing.

Homebase:

If u believe God can give u a job without compromising your age he will surely do, i know its not easy, its challenging but with God all things r possible.

Have faith.

Not all coy emphasis on age, my coy arent interested on your age, but your skill and ability.  however 32 years is not too old.  lt all depends on the job and coy, maybe u want to join UBA ,  :Pthey employ ONDs, and banks are generally age crazy.

Abeg hold on to your faith, u are not too old.  All the best.

Well do it if u want a job,
Afterall you wont be the first nor the last, it is standard nowadays,
You may need to get more professional qualifications on board because truth be told, u old small and with just an OND, u would struggle!

you would get fired if caught lying on your resume

Dear Homebase,

Let me share a personal experience with you.
After my service year, i was retained at the coy
where i served. However, during my service year
i had forwarded my cv/applications to all manner of
coys, banks, ngo's etc in search for that dream job but
NONE came calling!! You know what? My true age in those
CV's was false!! Needless to say, i'm still waiting to be called
up by just ONE of those places i sent my applications to!!

Now, the ONLY place i chose to fill my correct age is where iam
working today! And it is nearly two years now. It's been wonderful here, 
the pay is unbelieavable and i will be on my way for further studies soon.

My brother, it pays to do the right thing. What do you think?

Be guided by your conscience.

Take this Words!

Mr Homebase

Remember if you are a Christian you are not to conform to the things of this world. Is 8:12 what others are calling conspiracy you should not call it conspiracy, as in don't do or say what others are doing. Normally when your faith is been tested like in this case it means your beakthrough is just round the corner so hang on, hold on to your faith because you know better.

A lot of people like myself are looking and thinking of a business today but don't have a clue and to make it on this earth you must have a business to progress in life.

So what kind of business are you into and why is it not working, what can you do differently. How are your competitors coping, or are they also quieting as well.

Please try and keep your business going if you are passionate and believe in it. But off course keeping searching for your accountancy work with your right age, in order to raise more capital for the business and to substain yourself.

thanks

Poster, you are asking the above question because of your predicament and everybody that answered have answered well but it all depends on your personal situation. It will be easier for a teenager that is in school where all his or her needs are taken care of by a guardian to tell you not to change your age. Your situations do not look alike neither will it ever be the same.
I will say that if you are really in a fix with no where to go from here, then change your age. It is for you to feed yourself not any one here, with that in mind, you should do the best thing for yourself which is for you to lower your age and get a job. Jacob wouldn't have had to cover himself in sheep skin to get blessed if he had alternatives. Everyday you are thinking about it, adds a day to your age. Whatever you need to do should be now. Your children wouldn't forgive you if you gave them the above reason for being poor.
You are not under any pressure from any person, if you can tell yourself the truth, the pressure is from you, by you and for you and you have your reasons for that pressure which definitely is not to allow this life pass you by in your present unemployed state.
There are advices that i can take from Nairaland and those that I can not take, being that most of the posters are dependents and can not understand what it feels like to come home empty handed and look at the face of your dependents as hunger dey wire them.
While at the job, try as much as possible to further your education and your reduced age will be a plus to it. If you are waiting for manna to fall from heaven, remember how long the isrealites trespassed the wildernes before they had manna, are you willing to wait that long? God helps those that help themselves.

Dont lie.Hold on to God he will see u tru.(looking unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith)

Age could be an advantage.  A company might be looking for a matured
person with experience and not a newbie with hot pants but no experience.

Its just that Nigerian companies are die hard on degrees
and not much on experience.

@ linkspammer




positive?

You mean he can go ahead and reduce his age?  

_{i thot you are spiritual}

I am not seeing any persecution here, what persecution are u talking about? Is it the fact that the guy has "only"OND? or the fact that he is 32? Those are facts of life and facts of this case as they were brought to us. Persecution has nothing on this, where did the persecution come in on this and who persecuted who? You are the kind of person that recommends exorcism to a simple Malaria case.
Life is not a novel by Hardly Chase or Mills and boom. If you cared to be wise before answering you should have known from the words of the poster that he has been givin this a lot of thought and it has become a burden to him and what you need to do to get a good advice that will help the poster is by breaking down the facts which are: He thinks that he is old to get a job. It is not that he does not want to work neither is it that they do not want to employ him because he is catholic or a christian. He has only OND. The poster seems like somebody that would have loved to study further when he was young and he did not, you can only adduce that circumstances made him stop half way. Going back to school will add to his years which is not what the poster told us he wants to do. He needs a job badly and you all are coming up with answers like exorcism, prayer, watch, wait, go back to business(with your money abi?), go back to school (to make the guy reach 40?). In the olden days we use to say think before you talk now it is all about think before you type, this goes to all advisers that are seeking to wreck this man life in the name of computers and availability of keyboards. Some of us here can afford the life we are leaving now because of the lies their fathers lied to get residency where they are. And my fellow country man has a biting problem of this nature, being a good citizen and willing to work and you tell me to agree with all you are telling him. Wait till he takes a gun to Lagos Badagry expressway before you answer him realstically.

Man Jaf


You will make a good screenwriter.

LMAO

Homebase, If you really believe in God, then ask him and have faith that you have received it, and you definitely will receive it. You do not have to lie about your age or anything else.